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Making an explosive double date with Russian volcanoes
AlphaGalileo 25/08/2010Two French scientists are travelling to one of the remotest places on Earth, the Kamchatka peninsula, to piece together the complex life story of two volcanoes. Dr Agnes Samper (University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada) and Dr Pierre Lahit...
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Acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown 'by end of century'
AlphaGalileo 25/08/2010A unique ?natural laboratory? in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering...
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Deadly bat fungus found in several European countries
AlphaGalileo 25/08/2010Within five years the death toll of North American bats succumbing to ?white-nose syndrome? has reached the one million threshold, now the causative fungus Geomyces destructans was identified in a number of European countries ? without detr...
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A dog?s life ? physiotherapy for arthritic pets
AlphaGalileo 25/08/2010Despite the obvious difference that they tend to walk on four legs, pet animals are often treated as though they are humans. This extends to their medical care and animals with osteoarthritis are generally offered the same types of physiot...
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Waiting for the right moment
AlphaGalileo 25/08/2010Pathogens make themselves feel at home in the human body, invading cells and living off the plentiful amenities on offer. However, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, together with colleagues at Harvard Un...
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France drains lake under glacier
BBC News | Science & Environment 25/08/2010French engineers are set to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and which threatens to flood a valley below....
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Car versus plane: travel and the climate change debate
CORDIS 24/08/2010Which is worse for global warming: travelling by car or by plane? According to the results of an EU-funded study, car travel increases global temperatures more than an air travel for the same journey but only in the l...
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Rich exoplanet system discovered
BBC News | Science & Environment 24/08/2010Astronomers discover a planetary system with at least five planets orbiting a star much like our Sun....
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'No man-made fix' for rising seas
BBC News | Science & Environment 24/08/2010Even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change, a study suggests....
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Signs of oil found off Greenland
BBC News | Science & Environment 24/08/2010Gas has been discovered off the coast of Greenland after the first drilling for a decade, a sign of a possible oil discovery....
